“Apple wants your iPhone to offer dynamic city search suggestions based on travel itineraries when you’re on the road, including suggesting locations to search in one application based on travel plans identified in a different application,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple Daily Report. “The company has filed a patent (number 20140223448) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for ‘dynamic location search suggestions based on travel itineraries.'”

“In the patent filing, Apple says that iPhones provide access to numerous sources of data and can run applications that organize and allow searching of information for specific topics,” Sellers reports. “For example, weather apps may let you search for and/or select locations (e.g., cities) and to store the selected locations for use in retrieving information about local weather conditions, forecasts, radar, etc. The local information can be updated for each of the stored locations every time the app is launched.”

Some people just don’t get it, the appeal of Apple products is quality over bragging fights, a priority I fully support. The mess of Android simply proves the validity of the strategy. As for the larger iPhone it’s coming and Samsung is falling off a cliff at present so even when late Apple can still crash and destroy the opposition party.

What is this about “spying ” on its users? How idiotic! This particular service simply does not work without location info. The iPhone allows you, the user, to decide which apps have access to the location data. It’s not “spying” when it is working on your behalf with your express permission.

Anyone paranoid about being spied on had better jump off the smartphone train. Part of the benefit of have a computer on you person art all times are these location-aware applications.

Nothing from Google is really free. I avoid Google as much as possible, and I have found that it is very possible. Apple Maps works fine for me. I can also use Bing, if Apple Maps is not doing the job. DuckDuckGo for search. Nothing associated with Gmail or Google+…I am not touching that crap. Even my teenagers are leery of Google, and they came to that conclusion on their own. Unfortunately, their schools made them use Google Apps for their schoolwork.

Idiot.
If you had two brain cells to rub together, you’d know that there’s a Google Maps app for iOS devices, there’s Apple Maps supplied natively as well.
And neither give you map access ‘wherever you go’ because there are a great many parts of the world with no cellular signal, or even if there is, no data.
There are many places I go local to where I live, with towns and villages not far away, where there is no phone signal, so Google Maps is utterly useless.

This would work better in Apple maps as it is vector based allowing Apple to download them to download the area you are headed before you get there at a fraction of the download data. (more difficult for Apple to design, better for you) If you hit a cell blackout area, you already have the map info ahead of time.
Google maps are bitmapped.

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Not anymore. At least not for me. I was one of those most vocal about its shortcomings (the entire country of Serbia was one big black hole). Today, apple maps gives me accurate street numbers for every little obscure address while Google puts me at some random spot along the street. Apple has come a long way.

For the moment, Google Maps DATA is more comprehensive than Apple Maps, (especially outside the US), since the product has been around much longer.

However, as with all Google products, the UI is crude and unintuitive and you’re paying for the “free” service with your personal data. For these reasons I use Apple Maps for everything except the rare ocassion when they’re not up to the task at hand (mainly for international travel.)

I have no doubt that Apple will continue to evolve their product to fill in any missing gaps – ultimately allowing us to avoid Google altogether.